Rach’s progress
Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis by Rachel Johnson reviewed
Books & Arts
The shape of things
On shape-note singing and my friend Stephen
Articles of War
In this excerpt from his autobiography Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime, David Pryce-Jones meets the survivors of the 20th century
Count my blessings
Meeting the inimitable Basie
The modern art of stupid-smart
We’ve always had bogus public intellectuals, but never before have they been quite so bogus
I hate the Nineties
The Nineties began in hope but ended in disaster